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📚 Genre: Nonfiction • Literary History • Mystery/Detective • Pulp Fiction History ✍️ Author: Ron Goulart 📖 Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket ⭐ COLLECTIBLE: First Printing — December 1988 📅 Copyright: 1988 🏛️ Publisher: The Mysterious Press 🔢 ISBN: 0-89296-191-0 🔎 ABOUT THE BOOK: A Comprehensive History of the Detective Fiction Pulps Step back into the gloriously gritty world of vintage pulp detectives! 🕵️‍♂️🔫 Ron Goulart explores the history of American detective-fiction pulp magazines and the writers, characters, publishers and publications that helped shape the genre. Packed with the atmosphere and artwork of classic detective pulps, this is a fun piece of mystery history for anyone fascinated by hard-boiled detectives, pulp magazines, vintage crime fiction and the golden age of mystery publishing. ✨ WHY IT’S A GEM: 🕵️ FIRST PRINTING — 1988 📰 History of detective-fiction pulp magazines 🎨 Vintage pulp artwork & illustrations 🔎 Great mystery-reference/collector book